Dr. Karlson is highly skilled and experienced consultant and coach to executives in a variety of enterprises, from Fortune 500 companies to sole proprietors.Career SummaryStrategy/Leadership Consulting▪ Founder and CEO, Paradox Consulting International, LLC Strategy and Leadership Consulting▪ Strategy and Leadership Consultant, Microbicbloc, Inc. Healthcare soft goods▪ Consulting Principal, Executive Coach, (Mattel, Nokia, Blockbuster, Cooper Institute, Texas Instruments, Johnston Tobey law firm, others)▪ Senior Consultant, Strategy Leadership Center, Texas Instruments, Inc.Business Leadership ▪ CEO and President, OSLO Holdings, Startup PE Fund▪ Founder and CEO, The Reading Company International, Inc., (learn-to-read media production; creator, producer, content editor)▪ VP, Research and Development, Smoke Signals, Inc. (principal investigator, SBIR grant award)▪ Founder Partners for Family Impact NPO (fatherless kids)▪ Founder and Executive Producer, Paradox Productions Media (Help My Family with Dr. K reality TV demo)▪ Founder and CEO, Trial Psychology Institute, Inc. litigation consulting specializing in family lawNPO Leadership▪ Leadership and Strategy Advisor, Operation Christmas Child, Collin County North, Texas▪ President, PSY-PAC Texas Psychologists Political Action Committee▪ President, Children’s Arts and Ideas Foundation non-profit▪ Chair, Legislative Committee, Texas Psychological Assn▪ Committee on Professional Practice and Standards, American Psychological Assn. Teacher/Professor▪ 2 Teaching Excellence Awards, Managing Difficult People Seminar, SMU Cox Business Leadership Center▪ SMU Cox Business School, Bus. Leadership Ctr., Managing Difficult People Seminar▪ Course designer and professor, Business Communications, UT Dallas Graduate School of Management; Adjunct faculty▪ Blockbuster Mentoring Pilot Program for High Potential Managers designer/consultant ▪ UT Southwestern Medical School, Forensic Psychology Adjunct faculty; course design▪ SMU Dedman School of Law, Psychiatric/Psychological Evidence Adjunct facultyWriter▪ Psychiatric and Psychological Evidence by Dan Shuman (New York: Shepards/McGraw-Hill, 1986) co-author; APA Guttmacher Award winner for best law/psychiatry book. ▪ Uniform Child Custody Evaluation System (with Harry Munsinger, PAR, Inc. Press)▪ Loving Your Children Better (parenting book with Mary Ann Little, Nolo Press)▪ Who’s Who in the World▪ Who’s Who in Human Service Professions▪ Society of Industry Leaders ▪ International Management Consultants (IMC).